So vowed Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa 16 months ago, when asked about
the danger of Soviet intervention. He was right, even though the last
important strike or sit-in against Poland's three-week-old martial law
regime ended at the Piast mine in Silesia last week when 1,100 weary
and hungry workers decided to give up their demonstration after
occupying their mineshaft for 14 days. But across Poland, a wave of
passive resistance was beginning to swell. In Szczecin,...